Bistand i konflikter og følgerne for donorerne

The Challenges and dilemmas of security provision by external actors in conflict – Insights from DR Congo, Niger and Mali

TID: Torsdag d. 3 december, kl. 09.00 – 15.15

STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Auditoriet, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nær Nordhavn S-station), Østerbro, København

The Challenges and dilemmas of security provision by external actors in conflict – Insights from DR Congo, Niger and Mali

TID: Torsdag d. 3 december, kl. 09.00 – 15.15

STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Auditoriet, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nær Nordhavn S-station), Østerbro, København

The seminar will be conducted in English and live streamed on www.diis.dk

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form on

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And do so no later than Wednesday, 2 December at 12.00 noon.

Background

This seminar analyses the challenges and dilemmas faced by international donors that attempt to support local actors to provide security in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

Keynote speaker

Jean-Hervé Jezequel will present his forthcoming international crisis group report on Mali, titled “Of Diplomats and Nomads in the Sahel. The (dis)connections between the Algiers peace process and the roots of local violence in northern Mali”.

For some time there has been a consensus that in order to improve security in such countries there is a need for restoring state authority. The restoration of state authority requires creating a state which can function alongside other states in the international system.

This process is assumed to consist of the institution of a market economy and democracy, and the creation of accountable public services.

Paradoxically, this state-centric approach also requires a minimum of legitimate monopoly on the use of force within its territory, which is often impossible in fragile and conflict-affected areas.

Instead, a plethora of non-state actors proliferate, compete, fight and collaborate with each other and with state actors over the right to rule territory and populations.

International support to state security is therefore faced with dilemmas of whom to support in such contexts.

The apparent failure of the western ideal-type model of statehood has led to a certain level of pragmatism and diversification among donors who seem to be increasingly following a ‘stabilization’ agenda, which does not necessarily entail a whole-sale transformation of conflict-affected countries into liberal democracies.

Donors – who are increasingly concerned that the security problems of the global south will spill over to the global north – seem far more willing to collaborate and even support autocratic and violent regimes and non-state security actors.

But, these paths are fraught with difficult challenges and dilemmas which are explored through empirical case material from DR Congo, Niger and Mali.

Speakers

* Jean-Hervé Jezequel, Keynote speaker Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group, Dakar

* Koen Vlassenroot, Professor, Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium                                        

* Karen Büscher, Postdoc, Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium

* Line Brylle, Danish Refugee Council, Denmark

* Eric Hahonou, Roskilde University, Denmark

* Lotte Pelckmans, DIIS, Denmark

* Kasper Hoffmann, Researcher, DIIS, Denmark and Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium

* Peer Schouten, Postdoc, DIIS, Denmark

Programme

Læs videre på 

http://www.diis.dk/node/6050 

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